MSXdev’18 – Fifth entry: Dreams Puzzle

Dreams Puzzle is the first entry for the MSX Freestyle category (The contestant can use whatever one want including graphic expansions, sound extensions, add-ons, later machines than MSX1, etc.). The game offers 8 sliding tile puzzles for the player to solve. You can only go to the next puzzle if you solve the previous one. Although the game doesn’t offer a way to save your game, at the end of each puzzle, it will give you a password that you can type to continue from where you stopped (old school!).

Unfortunately, as far as I could verify, the game cannot be played using an emulator because no one ever implemented support for the required V9990 card. If you don’t own an MSX machine with the required hardware, you can have a taste by the images posted here.

Josephine Wall makes the beautiful illustrations, and you can find out more about her work here.

The deadline for the MSXDev’18 is on February 14th, 2019 so even if you didn’t start yet, there is time to get involved!